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Balk

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Refuse to deal with something

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Baleful

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Threatening

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Banter

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Light teasing remarks

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Bard

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Poet

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Baroque

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Flamboyant style of architecture and art

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Barrage

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Attacking flow of something

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Bedeck

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Decorate

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Begrudging

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Ungenerous

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Beleaguer

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Annoy

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Belie

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To contrast with; show to be false

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Belligerent

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Hostile and aggressive

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Bemoan

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Lament; to express grief or disappointment about something

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Bequeath

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Leave someone something in will

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Bereave

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Deprive through death

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Bereft

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Lacking; sense of loss

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Beseech

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Beg

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Bifurcate

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Divide in two

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Bilk

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Cheat

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Bivalve

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Mollusk with hinged shell

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Blandishment

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Flattery & enticements

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Blight

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Ruin

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Blithe

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Casual

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Bohemian

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Artist who lives free of regard for conventional rules and practices

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Bolster

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Encourage through support

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Bombastic

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Pompous, ostentatiously lofty in style

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Boon

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Great benefit

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Boorish

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Ill mannered

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Bourgeois

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Capitalist; relating to social class that owns most the wealth

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Broach

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To bring up a difficult/awkward subject

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Bungle

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Spoil something

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Burgeon

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To flourish/develop rapidly

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Buttress

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Wall support

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Byzantine

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Extremely complex or intricate

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